by Michelle Moran | Jul 28, 2024 | The Writer
Technology is both my best friend and enemy. In the mornings, my practice has been to open my email and start the day by knocking out to-do lists before I write. The writing never comes because the lists are always so long. Then something happened the other day. I was...
by Michelle Moran | Sep 10, 2023 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #Homestead, #litlpond, The Writer
My husband Danny and I were in the jungle of Belize having breakfast, bird-watching, and being entertained by an acrobatic group of Howler Monkeys. We began chatting with a couple at a nearby table. They were raised in the Midwest and living in Texas. As always with...
by Michelle Moran | Aug 25, 2023 | The Writer
A menu map of Karpathos. The beauty of Pigadia. Heaven on earth. Achat Beach. Our trip to Karpathos, Greece, began as a joke. Well, not really, Here’s how the story goes. We were visiting Danny’s niece and her husband in New York City. It was a reunion delayed by the...
by Michelle Moran | May 12, 2023 | #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #litlpond, The Writer
The ocean below me, I watched the waves smash into rocks, listened to the kids bickering on the trail ahead of me thinking, this would not be a good time for an annoyed sister to give her brother a mischievous shove. The hike, a condensed version of the original...
by Michelle Moran | May 12, 2023 | The Writer, Uncategorized
The water is coming in from every direction. And the constant roar of the reef is keeping my mind off the fact that I can’t get my laptop working. My hopes of spending the day seem crashing like the waves on the natural rock jetty offshore. Instead, I find myself...
by Michelle Moran | Feb 21, 2021 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #litlpond, The Writer
We planned to set out early in our usual organized chaos but missed the first three ferries. I wanted to catch the first boat to the mainland and begin our discovery tour. But Danny wasn’t stirring, even with my five alarms. He’d been pretty wiped out since coming to...
